Rumours of a third installment in the beloved Bill & Ted franchise eventually gracing cinema screens have been raging for years; with Bill & Ted 3 being one of those on-again-off-again movies that one-one ever quite believes will get made; but now it looks as if we are finally one step closer to seeing Bill S. Preston Esquire and “Ted” Theodore Logan go on another time-traveling mission, as the script for the third film is now finally finished.
Alex Winter (who played the titular Bill in both the 1989 original; Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure; and the 1990 follow-up; Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey) recently Tweeted that he had “just got the script” for the film; which has been written by none other than Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon (the original writers of both previous Bill & Ted films).
Keanu Reeves (who starred as the titular Ted; in the movies which saw his career explode, and led to him becoming one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood) has also been weighing in on the gossip, and suggested that the new film would tie-in to the previous installment; with the boys now being obsessed with creating the song that saved the world (as they were said to have done in the previous installment).
Obviously there’s still no definitive release date, director, official castings, or even a start date, for Bill & Ted 3 (which would likely use some kind of radical/awesome subtitle in the end), but this is the most solid and promising news that has come of the potential sequel for quite sometime, the closest the time-traveling phone booth has got to being in action for 20 years, and a real cause for fan celebration.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter.
